5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Fiber counting and analysis in the diagnosis of asbestos-related disease
…large numbers. Numbers of asbestos bodies markedly underestimate total numbers of fibers present in lung. In patients from the general population, the mean number of asbestos fibers is about 1 X 10(6)/g dry lung;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Long fibre asbestos in a chrysotile textile worker
…worker and a less pronounced but probably significant shift for the tremolite group. They noted general agreement that long fibres are associated with disease. On that basis they concluded that their findings offered an explanation for…